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Hey guys, I have no idea if this movie's going to be good, an absolute shitfest or somewhere in between (probably #3) Anyway, here's a lovely trailer for a not-so-lovely film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRVD32rnzOw
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:She's a really good actress but she's British, meaning that she doesn't give a poo poo about whatever movie she's in. I heard she sucks in plays too though?
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Apr 10, 2018 18:41
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PostNouveau posted:I heard she sucks in plays too though? I'm sure she's fine in plays too, people just don't take her seriously because she looks like she's 11 years old and is always making comical faces.
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Apr 10, 2018 18:57
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:She's a really good actress but she's British, meaning that she doesn't give a poo poo about whatever movie she's in. I hate it when Brits do this. loving limey bastards wasting everyone’s time
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Apr 10, 2018 19:13
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sponges posted:I hate it when Brits do this. loving limey bastards wasting everyone’s time By that I mean, she doesn't seem to care if the movie is Twelfth Night or Terminator, she'll be in anything that pays.
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Apr 10, 2018 19:18
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thrawn527 posted:I honestly don't know much about Clarke. I don't watch Game of Thrones (because I read the books and I can't put myself through that misery again), so the only thing I've seen her in was her Terminator movie. Which, I mean, the sheer amount of problems with that movie make it so I don't really notice if she's any good or not. She seemed fine, but a ham sandwich would seem like a decent actor next to Jai Courtney, and the script doesn't give her anything interesting to do. So this movie is going to be the first real chance I have to see if she's alright. It's almost like the show is different than the books. You should give it a try. UmOk posted:I think you might not understand the concept of mitigation It's going to be even more of an unmitigated disaster than TLJ at the box office, which was already abysmal by Star Wars standards.
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Apr 10, 2018 19:21
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Emilia Clarke mostly stood out in Terminator because the previous two portrayals of that same character have been so excellent. Hamilton and Headey were anything but bland and forgettable, which is what Clarke is in Genisys.
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Apr 10, 2018 19:26
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Clarke is very good IMO. She does her best with the plate of poo poo she's given. Me Before You seems to have been received positively.
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Apr 10, 2018 19:27
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viral spiral posted:It's almost like the show is different than the books. You should give it a try. I watched the first episode, felt the familiar sense of dread and depression I felt from the books, decided I couldn't put myself through that again. viral spiral posted:It's going to be even more of an unmitigated disaster than TLJ at the box office, which was already abysmal by Star Wars standards. Again, this is arguing over the use of the word "unmitigated". They are mitigating the poo poo out of this potential disaster. It might still be a disaster, but that would just mean their mitigation didn't work. This is really splitting hairs. But also, TLJ was not a disaster at the box office, unmitigated or not. It made over $1.3 billion, and is the 2nd highest grossing Star Wars movie (6th out of 9 when adjusted for inflation, but still). To say it was "abysmal" is just silly.
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Apr 10, 2018 19:30
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If you try a hundred different things to mitigate, and they all fail and it's a complete disaster anyway, well you didn't mitigate. It's unmitigated. You tried and failed to mitigate.
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Apr 10, 2018 19:42
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Basebf555 posted:If you try a hundred different things to mitigate, and they all fail and it's a complete disaster anyway, well you didn't mitigate. It's unmitigated. You tried and failed to mitigate. ...yeah, alright, I can see that. Withdrawn.
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Apr 10, 2018 19:43
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thrawn527 posted:I watched the first episode, felt the familiar sense of dread and depression I felt from the books, decided I couldn't put myself through that again. Are you making GBS threads me? The show is entertaining as hell, even if it does not have the best writing. Dread and depression do not appear on the radar whenever I talk to someone about the show. thrawn527 posted:Again, this is arguing over the use of the word "unmitigated". They are mitigating the poo poo out of this potential disaster. It might still be a disaster, but that would just mean their mitigation didn't work. They are trying to mitigate an unmitigated disaster—yeah, NO poo poo. It was a film no one asked for, and I bet the actor playing Han will single-handedly bring this film's critical potential down. In other words, an unmitigated disaster like this is unsalvageable; even with Disney's considerable PR team. thrawn527 posted:But also, TLJ was not a disaster at the box office, unmitigated or not. It made over $1.3 billion, and is the 2nd highest grossing Star Wars movie (6th out of 9 when adjusted for inflation, but still). To say it was "abysmal" is just silly. It made $700 million less than TFA. That is disastrous by Disney's standards. FFS, the Avengers made more than TLJ six years ago.
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Apr 10, 2018 20:46
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Let's never ever talk about the definition of the word "mitigate" and whether or not something about a movie does or does not meet the definition of "mitigate" or if an attempted mitigation was successful or Jesus Christ shut the gently caress up, all of you.
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Apr 10, 2018 20:48
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viral spiral posted:Are you making GBS threads me? The show is entertaining as hell, even if it does not have the best writing. Dread and depression do not appear on the radar whenever I talk to someone about the show. I'll cede the unmitigated part. viral spiral posted:It made $700 million less than TFA. That is disastrous by Disney's standards. FFS, the Avengers made more than TLJ six years ago. It's the 7th top grossing film of all time. It did fantastic. Is the Avengers a disaster because Titanic made more money that it 15 years before the Avengers came out? It did make less money than the TFA, but it also had no where near the same hype that TFA did. It also did more than the most recent Star Wars movie before it, Rogue One. The idea that TLJ was a financial disaster just does not hold up.
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Apr 10, 2018 20:51
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thrawn527 posted:It's the 7th top grossing film of all time. It did fantastic. Is the Avengers a disaster because Titanic made more money that it 15 years before the Avengers came out? It wasn't a disaster, but I'm pretty sure the heads at Disney are not happy with the film's performance at the box office, and they sure had meetings to discuss why the movie didn't make their predictions.
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Apr 10, 2018 21:37
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El Chingon posted:It wasn't a disaster, but I'm pretty sure the heads at Disney are not happy with the film's performance at the box office, and they sure had meetings to discuss why the movie didn't make their predictions. i'm sure they'll wisely come to the conclusion that it was because it didn't have the hype train of 'star wars is finally back!' that tfa got to enjoy surely they won't pin it all on tlj's incrementally small baby steps in doing anything beyond just being the same rebels vs empire nonsense tfa was
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Apr 10, 2018 21:52
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Brother Entropy posted:i'm sure they'll wisely come to the conclusion that it was because it didn't have the hype train of 'star wars is finally back!' that tfa got to enjoy TFA didn't have to contend with a Jumanji 2 or Greatest Showman either.
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Apr 10, 2018 21:57
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Wheat Loaf posted:TFA didn't have to contend with a Jumanji 2 or Greatest Showman either. lord please don't tell me greatest showman actually did well enough to be a part of this conversation
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Apr 10, 2018 22:00
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Brother Entropy posted:lord please don't tell me greatest showman actually did well enough to be a part of this conversation My sweet summer child.
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Apr 10, 2018 22:03
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Brother Entropy posted:lord please don't tell me greatest showman actually did well enough to be a part of this conversation Not as big as Jumanji but I'm given to understand it had pretty good staying power for what it was. It's in the top five live-action musicals ever, apparently. The appeal of Jumanji is obvious, but consider: Greatest Showman is a brightly-coloured musical about a circus and it's only about an hour and a half long. If parents are going to pick something to see with their kids, they'll probably pick that over the one that's two and a half hours.
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Apr 10, 2018 22:04
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Brother Entropy posted:lord please don't tell me greatest showman actually did well enough to be a part of this conversation http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=greatestshowman.htm http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=greatestshowman.htm Domestic Total as of Apr. 9, 2018: $172,987,176
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Apr 10, 2018 22:08
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christ that movie was totally in my blindspot then, didn't hear anyone I know who saw it or even mentioned wanting to see it
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Apr 10, 2018 22:11
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Brother Entropy posted:christ that movie was totally in my blindspot then, didn't hear anyone I know who saw it or even mentioned wanting to see it You mean you don’t hang out with gangs of moms?
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Apr 10, 2018 22:15
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Kart Barfunkel posted:You mean you don’t hang out with gangs of moms? if only
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Apr 10, 2018 22:17
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My sister enjoyed it a lot and the other movie she really enjoyed last year was the live-action Beauty and the Beast remake. I feel like they played to similar audiences.
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Apr 10, 2018 22:43
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El Chingon posted:It wasn't a disaster, but I'm pretty sure the heads at Disney are not happy with the film's performance at the box office, and they sure had meetings to discuss why the movie didn't make their predictions. You’re pretty sure huh. Is it dream knowledge or are you using the force.
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Apr 11, 2018 00:03
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Obviously making a billion dollars is very disappointing
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Apr 11, 2018 00:17
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euphronius posted:You’re pretty sure huh. Is it dream knowledge or are you using the force. Look at the patterns. It's not just that Last Jedi made less money (less than Black Panther, too, which nobody would believe if you said it a year ago), it's how it made less money. The smaller opening is easy to chalk up to the lack of "STAR WARS IS BACK!" energy, but it crashed hard on weekend two, and kept crashing. Which is a judgement on it, and maybe on Disney's handling of the brand in general. I mean, it's a pretty simple concept in general. If a company banks on a project making 10K and it brings back a cool million, that's a success. If they expect 10 million, then it's a failure. Worse, it 'failed' in a way that suggests people will be less likely to want to see the next one.
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Apr 11, 2018 00:51
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These things are very hard to judge, since you only have one data point a year, and the circumstances massively change in that time, and the studios are so fidgety with that much money in play that they do everything they can to move the pieces around by the next time. So, if Disney panics and shifts everything around for ep 9, and ep 9 fails, did it fail because they shifted things? Because they didn't shift them enough?
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Apr 11, 2018 00:59
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I think we have to accept the fact that kids these days may not give as much of a gently caress about Star Wars. Chinese people definitely don’t give a gently caress.
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Apr 11, 2018 01:08
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:She's a really good actress but she's British, meaning that she doesn't give a poo poo about whatever movie she's in. It's their most endearing trait.
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Apr 11, 2018 01:20
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Why don't we evaluate Disney's purchase of LucasFilm for $4 billion in like, a couple of decades, after they've made their money back tenfold and then we can see if it was a "failure".
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Apr 11, 2018 01:28
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Jewmanji posted:Why don't we evaluate Disney's purchase of LucasFilm for $4 billion in like, a couple of decades, after they've made their money back tenfold Between box office, merchandising and television rights, they're probably well on their way there.
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Apr 11, 2018 01:34
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chiasaur11 posted:Look at the patterns. How would you have any way of knowing what Disney was banking on it making? The closest anyone has brought up in the past is what some random “industry experts” predicted. But Disney will have for sure had their own estimates. And there is no reason to assume what they said. I am in no way saying that it met those expectations, because of course I have no way of knowing either. But it made over a billion dollars, and is the seventh highest grossing film of all time. They were so happy with Johnson that they gave him his own trilogy. Yes that was before TLJ came out, but we’ve seen plenty of evidence that Kennedy has zero issue with firing a director if they change their mind. Disney is clearing happy with this movie that made a ton of money. thrawn527 fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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Apr 11, 2018 02:00
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aBagorn posted:Different type of acting but I went to see her on Broadway and it was beyond terrible. the times savaged that production and it closed early. i think emilia clarke might not be a very good actress. Big Broadway Ben posted:Clad in Stork Club-ready gowns by Colleen Atwood, the round-cheeked Ms. Clarke (best known as the dragon-breeding queen in the HBO fantasy series “Game of Thrones”) looks positively edible, bringing to mind photographs of the teenage Gloria Vanderbilt on the town.
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Apr 11, 2018 02:32
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4 billion was a ridiculous steal.
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Apr 11, 2018 02:37
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Wheat Loaf posted:My sister enjoyed it a lot and the other movie she really enjoyed last year was the live-action Beauty and the Beast remake. I feel like they played to similar audiences. now i remember the beauty and the beast remake. god that sucked
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Apr 11, 2018 02:39
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R. Guyovich posted:now i remember the beauty and the beast remake. god that sucked Lmao it made like 4 billion dollars (Not saying it was good or whatever)
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Apr 11, 2018 02:41
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The Greatest Showman is so loving terrible.
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euphronius posted:Lmao it made like 4 billion dollars thanks for telling me the movie everyone knows made a lot of money made a lot of money. e: i read it again the way you probably intended and this was unnecessarily rude. sorry and god bless. R. Guyovich fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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